Like Misfortune Loves Orphans

This blog is dedicated to all things Lemony Snicket and Daniel Handler. Feel free to ask questions, request certain quotes, or just discuss your love for this author.

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Yesterday, February 28th, Daniel Handler turned 45 years old.

Here he is seen holding pineapples.

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[[Here it is, everyone—the unofficial, unauthorized ATWQ/ASoUE character personality quiz! It’s pretty simple, and not super informative about the character you get as a result, but it’s done all the same. I might make a more complex version later on (probably still in flowchart form, because I’m fond of flowcharts). Click to go to a larger (readable) version. If you have any comments on how to improve it or what you think, my inbox is always open. Oh, and if you want to reblog this, feel free to stick which character you got in the tags (I’d be interested to know, and likely some of your followers would as well).

(And yes, I know Kellar’s last name is spelled wrong, and Pip’s last name was given up on altogether—both of these things will be fixed in the future version, if it’s ever made.)

Anyways, I hope you all enjoy this!]]

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When someone tells you something unusual without an explanation, it is very difficult not to ask why.

Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope

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The weight of the world isn’t worth it, not even with the love which will die and go away, but each moment with Lila was worth everything, to talk to someone I’d known forever like an old song.

Daniel Handler, Adverbs

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Stain’d-by-the-Sea once had a great number of restaurants, most of them specializing in seafood. With the sea drained away, the seafood was in very scarce supply, so now most of the town’s restaurants specialized in being closed and boarded up.

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Bad circumstances have a way of ruining things that would otherwise be pleasant.

Lemony Snicket, The Reptile Room

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And I almost said I love you.  Instead I said nothing and you said nothing.  The waitress came to refill us and left the check.

Daniel Handler, Why We Broke Up

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“Have you forgotten who the famed Roewer Absinthe Poisoner is?”  She grinned, finally relaxing, and turned to me as she ran a stop sign. “Poisoness,” she said.  “Poisonous is right.”

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One of the easier ways to avoid the attention of one's enemies is to concoct a long, false tale about how something was passed to you by a mysterious stranger.

Lemony Snicket, The Unauthorized Autobiography

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When you love someone you spend hours and hours with them, and even the mightiest forces in the netherworld could not say whether the hours you spend increase increase your love or if you simply spend more hours with someone as your love increases.

Daniel Handler, Adverbs

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Lemony Snicket Quotes: 1/??

"Dixnik?" Sunny asked. It is always confusing why anyone would choose to wear a plaid shirt.

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Eavesdropping is a valuable thing to do, and it is often an enjoyable thing to do, but it is not a polite thing to do, and like most impolite things, you are bound to get in trouble if you get caught doing it.

Lemony Snicket, The Carnivorous Carnival

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He actually started to cry, right there.  Just a few tears, but that’s a lot for a boy, even one who can tell Shostakovich from Tchaikovsky and wears linen suits to school.

Daniel Handler, The Basic Eight

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Daniel Handler talked about his new book, “We Are Pirates” Friday night at SLCL. The seeds were planted for the book when Handler was in high school. After feeling hemmed in by the rules of a career test, Handler convinced his entire home room to check “other” as a choice, and write in “pirate” as their chosen field. 

When Handler got around to being an author and decided to write the book, he wanted to write about people who were angry about the same lack of freedom he felt as a teenager. He used his sister as inspiration for the main character, as well as people in assisted living suffering from memory loss. His own father’s diagnosis with Alzheimer’s helped him understand what the disease was like beyond how it was normally portrayed in popular culture.

Handler has also been recognizing local poets at each stop on his tour (as he started writing as a poet), and Mary Jo Bang read a few selections from her most recent book.

St. Louis County Library has a great line-up of authors visiting this spring, get the full schedule here. 

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It may take a village to raise a child, but it only takes one child to inherit a fortune.

Lemony Snicket, The Vile Village

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Tell me something.  We need to know each other the most of anything.

Daniel Handler, We Are Pirates

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